Job 8 · Clearspring

Bildad: Job Should Repent

¹And Bildad the Shuhite answered and said,+ ²How long wilt thou speak these things? and the words of thy mouth be a strong wind?+ ³DothGod pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice?+ ⁴If thy children have sinned against him, he hath also given them over into the hand of their transgression.+ ⁵If thou seek earnestly untoGod, and make thy supplication to the Almighty,+ ⁶If thou be pure and upright, surely now he will awake for thee, and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous;+ ⁷And though thy beginning was small, yet thine end shall be very great.+ ⁸For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;+ ⁹For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.+ ¹⁰Shall not they teach thee, [and] tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?+ ¹¹Doth the papyrus shoot up without mire? doth the reed-grass grow without water?+ ¹²Whilst it is yet in its greenness [and] not cut down, it withereth before any [other] grass.+ ¹³So are the paths of all that forgetGod; and the profane man's hope shall perish,+ ¹⁴Whose confidence shall be cut off, and his reliance is a spider's web.+ ¹⁵He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand; he shall lay hold on it, but it shall not endure.+ ¹⁶He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;+ ¹⁷His roots are entwined about the stoneheap; he seeth the place of stones.+ ¹⁸If he destroy him from his place, then it shall deny him: I have not seen thee!+ ¹⁹Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow.+ ²⁰Behold,God will not cast off a perfect man, neither will he take evil-doers by the hand.+ ²¹Whilst he would fill thy mouth with laughing and thy lips with shouting,+ ²²They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked be no more.+

Bildad: Job Should Repent

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